Poly Haven recently discovered that their HDRi's are mirrored by a site that's using their old name - HDRI haven. Since their content is CC0 licensed, this might be legally ok, but it's obviously an ethically incorrect thing to do. So here's a word of warning: go directly to polyhaven.com instead of googling for them and falling for these con artists.
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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This explains all the ads and the worse browsing experience :(.
As you said, while this might legally be OK it really sucks :(.
Thanks for the heads up!
One notable feature of the scam site is that they publish no contact information.
Best thing I was able to find was this: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/lp/request-ovhcloud-registered-domain/